Battle of Leyte Gulf/the Battle of Cape Enga%C3%B1o 25-26 October

Famous quotes containing the words battle, gulf and/or cape:

    “The battle which I witnessed took place in the Presidency of Polk, five years before the passage of Webster’s Fugitive-Slave Bill.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “And into the gulf between cantankerous reality and the male ideal of shaping your world, sail the innocent children. They are right there in front of us—wild, irresponsible symbols of everything else we can’t control.”
    —Hugh O’Neill (20th century)

    “Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
    And the sun looked over the mountain’s rim:
    And straight was a path of gold for him,
    And the need of a world of men for me.”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)